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Finding Yourself With ROU REYNOLDS From ENTER SHIKARI · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Yeah. My name's Raul Reynolds.
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  Speaker 2: I am the singer in a band called Enter Shakhari
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  Speaker 2: and we are about to embark on our twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: six tour of Australia and we cannot wait.
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  Speaker 3: Fantasy. Thanks for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Today, pleasure, Thanks for having me my pleasure.
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  Speaker 3: Mate.
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  Speaker 4: So as you say, Enter Chicai return to Australia later
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  Speaker 4: this month for your first headline run since twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 3: Starting in Freemantle. On made the fourte eighthing You Get.
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  Speaker 4: Adelaide, Melbourne, Franks and Newcastle, Sydney and Brisbane and finished
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  Speaker 4: from the Sunshine Coast. On made the twenty fourth It's
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  Speaker 4: not far away at all the way, Do you packed.
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  Speaker 3: Ready to go?
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  Speaker 1: Get in there? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're all very excited to get back to Australia.
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  Speaker 2: It's always one of our favorite places to play.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, buzzing right.
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  Speaker 4: And the Australian audiences last sur edder Shaicari is part
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  Speaker 4: of Notfest just last year, mate, So what's changed with
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  Speaker 4: the bands this last time?
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  Speaker 3: You're earlier?
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  Speaker 1: Oh BlimE me.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, we finished up our record and have released that.
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  Speaker 2: That was a long arduous process and yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All sorts of life stuff has been going on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been all changed really, but at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't feel like that long ago we were in Australia,
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  Speaker 2: I suppose, But yeah, time I think that's just a
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  Speaker 2: example of how quickly time seems to ever weigh at
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  Speaker 2: the moment.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Just say someone saw you guys that not best investable
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  Speaker 4: environment and enjoyed your show. They're like, how much better
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  Speaker 4: is it going to be if they come and see
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  Speaker 4: you at your own headline?
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  Speaker 2: So, well, the set will be longer and probably more diverse, better.
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  Speaker 2: I don't I don't know if it's if I can
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  Speaker 2: say it'll be better.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I love playing festivals. I love playing the big stages,
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  Speaker 2: and I feel like we played them really well. So
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  Speaker 2: I don't know whether we can put on a better performance,
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  Speaker 2: but we'll put on probably a slightly different one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Cool.
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  Speaker 4: So for those who may not have seen your life before, mate,
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  Speaker 4: like runs through a typical ad shicari live show and
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  Speaker 4: what fans can expect.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we try and basically create a space that it is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, hopefully infinitely welcoming and it's a place where
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  Speaker 2: people can come together indiscriminately and celebrate life and human
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  Speaker 2: creativity and human connection.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, we play music that's dynamic and passionate with
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  Speaker 1: the aim of bringing people together.
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  Speaker 2: And that's that's it, really, you know, that's the core philosophy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Like the depression is always on bands on stage
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  Speaker 4: to entertain the crowds, I guess, but putting better around
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  Speaker 4: made and like what cand of crowd do to make
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  Speaker 4: you come off stage and go wow?
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  Speaker 2: That was something spedial like, Yeah, it's just all about
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  Speaker 2: the energy, isn't it. You know, you can feel when
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  Speaker 2: an audience is engaged, but I think also relaxed, Like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think one of the defining features I'd
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  Speaker 2: say about an Australian audience is there's a degree of
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  Speaker 2: relaxation in that everyone feels comfortable and therefore the energy
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  Speaker 2: can just spiral upwards. You know, we can feed off
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  Speaker 2: the audience, the audience feed feeds off the band and
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  Speaker 2: you get this wonderful cyclical thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So yeah, just energy positivity.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, just as a month day Hennisaki did The
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  Speaker 4: Undeakable and released an album with no seagulls, no teasers,
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  Speaker 4: now an ouncements.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing like. What was what was the thought process behind
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  Speaker 3: doing that.
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  Speaker 2: I think once we finished the album, we we were
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  Speaker 2: you know, we we really saw it as like a
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  Speaker 2: body of work, as one entity, and and that was
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  Speaker 2: kind of a shock really because the album was recorded
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  Speaker 2: in such a disjointed way over a long period of time.
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  Speaker 2: There was a worry that it wouldn't come together as
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  Speaker 2: one solid body of work, and it.
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  Speaker 1: Did quite effortlessly.
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  Speaker 2: And at that point, we, yeah, we were trying to
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  Speaker 2: think of, like, you know, how do we want to
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  Speaker 2: release this, and we basically just thought it would be
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  Speaker 2: a credit to the the art of it if we
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  Speaker 2: just released it, Like how how we how do we
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  Speaker 2: want people to approach this album?
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  Speaker 1: How do we want them to absorb it?
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  Speaker 2: And I think the traditional way of releasing three four
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  Speaker 2: singles before a record.
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  Speaker 1: Just didn't excite us. And I think.
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  Speaker 2: Just dropping a record in people's laps kind of forces
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  Speaker 2: them to take it in as an album, and the
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  Speaker 2: focus then becomes not about you know, hype or like
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  Speaker 2: like trying to make a really successful album. It actually
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  Speaker 2: becomes about how does how do people like react to
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  Speaker 2: the album? How do people indulge in it and like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, make it their own, and then they're able
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  Speaker 2: to just take one body of work and yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: immerse themselves into it, and that's really exciting for us.
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  Speaker 4: I don't say it's a massive ballsy movement, like good
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  Speaker 4: on you if having the confidence to do that, because
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  Speaker 4: in DA society where everything is structured like that and
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  Speaker 4: it's expected, like doing something like that's a pretty risky thing.
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  Speaker 3: But you've obviously got the comp listening yourselves to bought.
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  Speaker 2: Off, thank you man. Yeah, yeah, I mean we we
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  Speaker 2: definitely had doubts and we had or maybe we should
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  Speaker 2: we should do it a different way. We had other ideas,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, it just felt like the natural, kind of
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  Speaker 2: correct way for this album to be released. And I
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  Speaker 2: think I think a lot of the fans appreciate it
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  Speaker 2: as well, because, yeah, they're they're forced to just listen
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  Speaker 2: to it for how it should be listened to.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you guys.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously knew for a while that you weren't going to
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  Speaker 4: be doing all the fanfo and reasoners, So was it
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  Speaker 4: difficult to keep that secret, like to keep it in
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  Speaker 4: Like you've got this body of wipe that you're proud
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  Speaker 4: of and you want to scream it out and say
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  Speaker 4: this is what we got, but you couldn't you know, like,
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  Speaker 4: was it was it hard?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I mean to be honest, Once we finished the album,
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  Speaker 2: it was such a it was a tight deadline, and
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  Speaker 2: it was a lot of work, and I get so
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  Speaker 2: caught up with my perfection that I'd sort of run
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  Speaker 2: myself into the ground finishing it. And once it was finished,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, right, get it away from me. I
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  Speaker 2: washed my hands a bit and just completely detached from
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  Speaker 2: it for quite a few months. So it's actually quite
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  Speaker 2: nice because I'm kind of I feel like I'm receiving
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  Speaker 2: the album in the same way that the our audience
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  Speaker 2: of our fan bases, because I'm like coming back to
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  Speaker 2: the record now I've had some space from it.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's been nice.
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  Speaker 3: It would have been a whole different pre album cycle.
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  Speaker 4: So like normally you're out there and you're pushing it
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  Speaker 4: and you're doing the press and you're talking about all
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  Speaker 4: the time and basically feeding off band's anticipation. But this
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  Speaker 4: time around, like you're saying, it would have would have
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  Speaker 4: just rested with you a little bit, you know, like
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  Speaker 4: it wouldn't have been such a such a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think so. Yeah, this this feels like
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  Speaker 1: a I don't know. It feels like more of a moment.
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  Speaker 2: I think it feels like more of a it's a shock,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it really for the audience. So it's like it
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  Speaker 2: becomes something different, and I think it's it's what the
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  Speaker 2: album deserves.
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  Speaker 1: I think as well.
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  Speaker 4: Really, and you've described the album as one of your
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  Speaker 4: darkest and heaviest albums to date. So is that in
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  Speaker 4: terms of lyrical content or in terms of the musicality?
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  Speaker 1: I think both?
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  Speaker 2: Really, Yeah, And that wasn't what we set out to
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  Speaker 2: do by any means.
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  Speaker 1: It was just what came out.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of what we do is just instinctual, really,
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  Speaker 2: so it was interesting. It's an interesting kind of outcome,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, it wasn't an intention.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, look look at that.
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  Speaker 4: Do you do you remember the first time you ever
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  Speaker 4: heard one of your songs played on the radio and
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  Speaker 4: where were you and what song was it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I remember exactly, although if you ask any of the
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  Speaker 2: other guys they'd probably remember a complete.
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  Speaker 1: Scenarios. But I remember at least one of them was.
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  Speaker 2: The Radio one punk show, which was about three am
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  Speaker 2: on a Thursday or something, played our song return to Energizer,
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  Speaker 2: or well, they played about thirty seconds of it, and
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  Speaker 2: then they were like, oh, we'll have to stop that
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  Speaker 2: there because the quality isn't quite good enough for radio,
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  Speaker 2: because I think they only I don't know whether they
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  Speaker 2: just had like a really bad MP three or something. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so it was a bit of an anti climax really,
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  Speaker 2: but like the presenter was really said, he actually saw
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  Speaker 2: us at a show and he was like so excited
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  Speaker 2: to big us up, but he was just saying, like
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  Speaker 2: I remember him saying, please guys, if you're listening, send me.
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  Speaker 1: An actual version of the track.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I bet they probably just ripped it off of my
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  Speaker 2: Space every probably.
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  Speaker 3: Probably only had thirty seconds of it. All right, bro, Well,
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  Speaker 3: thanks very much for your time.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Big Love Man, thank you for having me.